Post: From InVest Washington (IVW) Recent news indicates that scarcity of fresh water is becoming more and more acute. Half the world’s people live in reliance on an “impaired water source, or one that is set to run dry or that is polluted. According to the Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Centre, there are 1 billion people who now rely on ground water supplies that are not renewable water sources. Underground water sources, such as natural aquifers, have no sustainable efficacy, as the percolation period is tens or even hundreds of years, depending on the depth of the aquifer. New technology allows for the immediate exploitation of the aquifers at drainage rates that far exceed recapitulation. Pollution in the oceans is also significant, including the cooling of Fukushima which has lodged radiation in plant and wildlife species, the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico which has created a huge kill zone, and in other areas of the world where more than 200 dead zones have now appeared. Of course, ocean water cannot be used as a fresh water resource without the expensive process of desalinization; a process which also yields a byproduct requiring some form of disposal. As a consequence, InVest Washington (IVW) is calling for the state to once again embrace its responsibility to properly steward the fresh water resources in the state of Washington. IVW has outlined a four point agenda: 1. The people of Washington should engage in the proper stewardship of fresh water capture in lakes and reservoirs, which should include a corrected management of run-off and drainage. 2. The people of Washington should develop an extensive rain water capture and sequestration program (by law) which will retain all fresh water capitulated within the geographic boundaries of the state of Washington, and allow for its filtration and use. 3. The people of Washington should develop new publicly held reservoirs and infrastructure for the restoration of fresh water into pre-existing and depleted aquifers in Washington, and when full, in Oregon and California. 4. The people of Washington should develop a new regimen for businesses to sequester, filter, store, and export fresh water in Washington and to other domestic clients in the region at an industrial level. To this end, IVW is promoting the New Millennium Fresh Water Act for the state of Washington, which will allow private businesses to build and develop: 1) desalinization processes and infrastructure along the coastline of Washington, with measures for the proper remarketing of byproducts; 2) sequestration and filtration systems for the capture of rain water, including the development of private systems which can be individually owned and deployed; 3) the development of new reservoirs in Western Washington which would be capable of capturing flood run-off, and rerouting such overflow to pre-existing or newly developed reservoirs in Eastern Washington; and 4) long-term recapture of the fresh water lakes in Washington, including new infrastructure to treat and store drainage from existing run-off mechanisms, the repatriation of natural ecosystems in the fresh water lakes, and new controls toward fresh water maintenance within fresh water lakes and reservoirs in Washington. If you are interested in joining this project, please let me know, as IVW is in startup.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:33:00 +0000
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